Affiliate marketing is all over the internet. Sign onto Twitter or do a few Google searches, and it's almost impossible to not be exposed to an affiliate link. It works like this: a regular guy or gal signs up with an advertiser, gets a special tracking link or some code for an ad, then publishes…
Author Archives: Matt Frazier
Are Your Links Causing Leaks?
It's useful to think of your blog as a bucket, and your search engine visibility as a valuable liquid that it contains. When you link to another blog or website, a little bit flows out of a hole in your bucket into theirs. When someone links to you, a little bit comes back. The bigger…
Honest Blogging
Hi there Health Blog Helper readers! My name is Allison, and I blog about my experiences as a new runner who is trying to lose weight by eating whole foods at Eat Clean Live Green. When Matt asked if I would be interested in writing a guest post, I thought this would be a great…
Yeah, There's a Plugin for That
A New Weekly Feature! Before I get into this week's topic, I have some exciting news to tell you about. Starting this Monday, there will be a new series of weekly guest posts from a blogger many of you know, Alison from Mama's Weeds! Each week, Alison will interview a top blogger in the healthy-lifestyle…
How Reader-Friendly Is Your Blog?
The idea behind growing your blog's readership is simple: in order to grow, you need to gain new readers faster than you lose the ones you already have. You probably put a lot of thought into the first element and do a lot of work to expose your blog to new readers. Commenting on other…
Turn Your Posts Into Google Magnets
When I started paying attention to search engine optimization (actually, when I bought an e-book I'll tell you about at the end of the post), my blog No Meat Athlete was getting around 30 search visits per day. As you can see from the Google Analytics graph above, I went from 29 search visits on…
AdSense: For New Blogs, It Doesn't Ad Up
Google AdSense is tempting for new bloggers. You sign up, get approved in a day, paste their code into your blog, and bam, you're getting paid for blogging, every time someone clicks one of the ads. Ideally. The problem isn't that you can't make any money with AdSense. You can if you're good at it…
Swingin' for the Fences: Writing Content That Spreads
Without a doubt, the biggest difference I see when I compare non-food blogs to food blogs is this: non-food bloggers write less frequent, more thought-out posts, with the hope that they'll go viral. That is, that they'll be linked to, Dugg, tweeted, Stumbled, and anything else that has the potential to bring hundreds or thousands…
Making the Move: How to Transfer Your Blog to Self-Hosting
[Update: So many people have emailed me to tell me how much this post helped them that I decided to give it its own page. Check out the new, updated version.] First, thank you for all your encouragement on the first day of this blog. Starting a new blog is always a little scary (what…
First Things First: Get Yourself a Real Domain Name
Think about it. Nearly every serious blog you look at has one. Why don't you? Ok, there's one reason why you might not. No matter how you choose to do it, a domain name that doesn't have ".blogger" or ".wordpress" in it is going to cost you a little bit of money. The name itself…